Shira Hanau
By Shira Hanau
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Fast Forward Handwritten works of Elie Wiesel’s mysterious teacher ‘Mr. Shushani’ open to public for first time
(JTA) — He knew some 30 languages, taught some of the greatest scholars of Jewish studies in the 20th century and is buried in Uruguay under a tombstone that champions his wisdom — but his identity was never known. Now, what sounds like the beginning of a riddle is the description of an author whose…
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Fast Forward Senate candidate Herschel Walker cancels fundraiser over host’s anti-vax swastika profile picture
(JTA) — A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Georgia canceled a fundraiser that was set to be hosted by a film producer whose social media account prominently displayed an anti-vax symbol in the shape of a swastika. The producer, Bettina Sofia Viviano-Langlais, was set to host a fundraiser for Herschel Walker, a retired…
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Fast Forward ‘Sabbath for $400’: Chulent stumps Jeopardy contestants in question about Shabbat restrictions
(JTA) — Contestants on an episode of Jeopardy that aired Wednesday night were stumped when presented with a photo of chulent, a stew traditionally cooked over the course of Shabbat. The clue, for $400 in the “Sabbath” category: “Exodus 35:3 bans doing this on the Sabbath, hence the Jewish dish, ‘chulent,’ which can go on…
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Fast Forward Texas Jewish death row inmate who argued judge was antisemitic wins new trial
(JTA) — A Jewish man who asked for a new trial on the grounds that the judge who sentenced him to death was antisemitic will be granted a new trial. Randy Halprin, 44, was originally set to be executed on Oct. 10, 2019 but won a stay from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after…
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Fast Forward Holocaust denying neo-Nazi’s remains were buried in a Jewish man’s grave in Germany
(JTA) — After the remains of a notorious Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi were interred last week in the burial plot of a German-Jewish music scholar who died before the Holocaust, the church that oversees the cemetery is looking into moving the neo-Nazi’s ashes to rectify its “terrible mistake.” Henry Hafenmayer, a neo-Nazi known for denying…
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Fast Forward Writing Hebrew letters carefully is a Jewish tradition. This rabbi sees sacredness in doodles, too.
(JTA) — When the pandemic kept Rabbi Emily Meyer stuck at home last year, she took up a hobby familiar to any elementary school student — doodling. But Meyer, a Jewish educator in the Pittsburgh area, didn’t use the margins of a notebook as her canvas. Instead, she started drawing around Hebrew letters, using brightly…
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Fast Forward Jewish teacher accused of forcibly removing a student’s hijab at NJ school
(JTA) — A Jewish teacher at a New Jersey public school was accused of pulling a hijab off of a 7-year-old girl. The teacher, who was named in social media posts as Tamar Herman, allegedly told the girl, who is Muslim, to take off her hijab in front of her class at the Seth Boyden…
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Fast Forward Israeli-American Joshua Angrist shares Nobel Prize in economics
(JTA) — A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with dual Israeli-American citizenship was named one of three winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. Joshua Angrist was named a winner alongside University of California, Berkeley professor David Card and Stanford University professor Guido W. Imbens. Angrist and Imbens were recognized for their…
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